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>s01ITUERN INDIAN^A HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 

SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. 



To the Senators and Representatives 
from Indiana: 

The Northern Indiana Historical Society, at a special meeting of its Execu- 
tive Committee held this day, unanimously adopted the following memorial: 

The members of the NoRTiiia<N Indiana Historical Society hereby strongly 
indorse the movement for the preservation of the U. S. Frigate "Constitution," now 
lying at the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, — a war vessel around which 
cluster many memories of the early days of the Republic, — the vessel which, by its 
destruction of the British war ship "Gucrricre," gave to the war of 1812 its first 
victory, and encouraged the Nation to renewed and ultimately successful eilorts, after 
the early and discouraging events of the war. 

The Society urges that the Members of Congress from liuliana favor the appro- 
priation added by the Senate to the Naval .Appropriation Bill for the repair or re- 
building of the famous Frigate, that it may be an object lesson, showing what in 
181 2 was considered a well equipped vessel of war, thus illustrating the marvelous 
progress which steam and steel have wrought in naval architecture in a single century. 
The Frigate "Constitution," so long as she is afloat, will serve to recall a naval 
victory which, small in itself when won, was the foundation of the maritime power of 
the Nation. 

And, Said Society earnestly requests and urgently petitions the Members of Con- 
gress from Indiana to use every honorable effort and influence within their control to 
secure so liberal an appropriation as may be necessary to fittingly restore and per- 
manently preserve the Frigate "Constitution" for the purpose above set forth, and 
as an inspiration of patriotism to the youth of our Country. 

Timothy E. Howard, President. 
George A. Baker, Secretary. 
South Bend, Indiana. March 15, 1906. 



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